The Picard ManeuverThe ice must flow
lechatronThe first thing I do when I get to my hotel room is fill up the ice bucket. Who likes warm drinks?
FozzyOsbourneWhat hotel is fancy enough to have ice buckets and dispensers but not a fucking fridge?
homesnatchI don’t think I’ve ever been to a hotel that didn’t have an ice dispenser/bucket, but have been to plenty that don’t have a fridge. Heck, Motel 6 has ice machines and a stupid plastic bucket.
Weird, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ice dispenser. Is this a USA thing?
Very likely… A lot of road trip travel by car, sometimes toting coolers. And Americans like their beverages cold.
Yup. I was super surprised when I heard that in Europe, they don’t give you ice by default, and they give you seltzer unless you ask specifically for something else.
Fridge takes hours to cool a drink, but put it in an ice bucket and it’ll be cold after you’re done pooping.
I feel like I’m the only person who goes to a hotel to sleep, not chill a 24 pack of diet Coke and a bottle of champagne to drink (without this hotel ice) after eating a ham sandwich out of my rolling cooler which needs a top off.
Where are you all traveling with your champagne and ham sandwiches?!
- nice hotels as a romantic getaway
- less nice hotels for a tinder hookup
- ghetto motels to avoid homelessness
Americans tend to like ice in their water and in their drinks. When o was a kid, my family would typically grab a buck full of ice to cool down the tap water we would drink in the evenings.
Hotel ice can be really funky, though, and I think the practice may be falling out of fashion in any case.
NeatoThis is it. And it’s because tap water can be really different from locale to locale. If you’re not used to it, it can taste quite bad. And room temperature water from the tap can enhance the flavor. So people put ice in it to cover it up.
SeraphHe's also correct in that those ice machines never really get cleaned.
Transporter Room 3I once left a 5 star review for a hotel purely because the hotel was what I expect from a hotel, but there was someone actively cleaning out the ice machine while we were bringing stuff into the room.
Nothing seemed eslecially clean or cared for while we were there, but I had never seen someone clean one before. Or cleaned the drink dispensers after breakfast is over.
I actually have a UV light I take with me on trips for both rock hunting and for hotels. Some hotels you just learn to avoid.
Hard pass on putting the ice in drinks. This is true of hotels and any fast food or restaurant: their ice dispensers are absolutely crawling with bacteria. Some probably even have live rats in them. Don’t fuck with ice, they’re all disgusting.
Man why you gotta hassle the ice rats man. They just trying to get by, y’know.
CorrodedIn case you have to pull an Inception
Has nobody topped off a cooler on a trip? Ice is useful for more than just drinking.
Isn’t the cooler also for drinking?
Mmmm cooler water is the best. ‘Specially with dirty hands, bugs, rat pee from the outside of the cans, and all sorts of other good stuff.
Mmmm bottle label glue
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆Does this person not drink anything while at a hotel? Or never need to leave someone in a bathtub full of ice after stealing their kidney?
I’m guessing they pay those exorbitant vending machine prices.
Still stumped on the second one though.
Some of us are from the warmer climes and appreciate the healing power of ice. And soon, all of us will be from the warmer climes.
Except Britain and the rest of northwestern Europe. It’s going to be plunged into an ice age by the collapse of the gulf stream.
And I’m still not sure if that’ll be better or worse.
Well if it means that I can finally afford a house then I’m all for it.
Hahahahaha . . . no. No, no.
Yeah, all the people who lose their houses probably won’t want new ones.
It can only be a good thing. Think of all that ice!
Ice … cream? Now I’m really looking forward to it.
Your point is correct, but it’s the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, that’s the real problem. The Gulf Stream is just a part of its system.
Dr. BobIce bucket. We chill wine bottles.
CatoblepasI was going to say liquor, but yeah. You can use it for soda too if you buy a 12 pack and bring it back to the hotel with you instead of letting the drink machine nickel and dime you.
No put that ice in your drinks. Dirty.
Why would you? They provide a bucket, just put the cans/bottles in that with the ice.
Most hotels have mini fridges
The last hotel I stayed at (fancy expensive hotel for a company gathering) had a mini fridge stocked with ridiculously expensive items, in such a way that the fridge was unusable for outside items. There was also a note that any items removed from the fridge would automatically be charged to the room. There was one bottle of complimentary water on the counter though.
God there was one where I bumped against the fridge and shifted a bunch of items that all showed up on my bill. I think a lot of the Disney hotels work on that system as well.
an ice bucket chills something waaaaaay faster than a mini fridge or even a mini fridge with a freezer
Yep, champagne is our main use case. If the wife and I are staying someplace nice, we love to get a bottle of champagne and some nice cheese at a local store and hang out in the room at least one night.
Don’t call me an ice bucket. You’re an ice bucket.
Is that a challenge?
FubarberryHotel’s need good ice dispensers so that you can fill a bathtub with ice after removing your tinder date’s kidneys.
Is the ice for the kidneys or just like a post-nephrectomy cold plunge?
starman2112Thank you for texting me the word nephrectomy, gonna bring my death threat game to the next level
You can have hemicorporectomy in exchange
You can rec my hemicorp anytime brother 😏
Boomer Humor DoomergodEvery time my ex and I would check into a hotel she’d immediately fill the ice bucket. And it would sit there, unused, until we checked out or it melted, at which time she’d have me empty it and fill it with ice again, which would then just sit there and melt.
I didn’t understand it at all.
Your wife will do well when the water wars start and you’d be wise to start following her lead.
As as aside, next time you know you’re going to a hotel bring a secret, second ice bucket to fill shortly after she fills the hotel one.
Don’t mention it or anything, just let her work out the logistics of what happened. If she’s as serious about hotel ice as she sounds, you’ll probably get laid right then and there.
Your wife
Semi said “ex”.
you’ll probably get laid
Again, “ex”.
Not if he does the ice bucket thing!
comments are forgetting there’s a fridge in the room
This, lol. Most hotels have a mini fridge. Seems like a better way to keep drinks cold than ice.
Not if you want to chill drinks quickly. Not everyone is spending multiple nights in their hotel rooms to have enough time to wait for the fridge to do it’s thing.
I like cold drinks.
I also like chewing on ice.
For some drinks, such as Sprite, I like the drink-flavored ice more than I like the cold drink.
You like chewing on hotel ice? The other comments in here would have me believe you should be dead.
Let’s chill out with the microaggressions. Dead people are still people, they have feelings, and they have every right to chew on hotel ice flavored with Sprite if that’s their prerogative.
I haven’t been to a hotel in a long long time, at least not in one nice enough to have an icemaker. However, when I was younger I was a lot more cavalier about bacteria, germs, etc. Nowadays, I’m a lot more cautious and probably would not use hotel ice in a drink.
I don't agree.
It's early afternoon and you're on the front end of a 48 hour work trip. You just got off a plane in Cedar Rapids, found a rental car, and drove to the hotel. You've been traveling since 7:00am, the water bottle that you refilled at the connection in Chicago and again at the destination in Cedar Rapids is both disgustingly warm and mostly empty. The rental car was hot as fuck because it's Cedar Rapids in July and the rental cars are sitting in an open lot rather than a garage.
Let's Zork this out.
You need to cool down and rehydrate. Do you:
a) buy a single use refrigerated bottle of water
b) remember that there's a fridge in the room and wait for 2 hours
c) go east
d) get yourself some bucket ice and tap water
Side quest pro-tip: do not pick up the metal bar
C, provided east is the local grocery store:
I bring my Steam Deck along with me, so I’d much rather stay in with my chicken fingers and soda than meet up with people I probably don’t like much anyway.